ICE! Gaylord National Giveaway

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Looking forward to the holiday season and all your favorite seasonal DC area events? Then you’ll be thrilled to know that in just a week, you can enjoy ICE! at the Gaylord National! The Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center is transformed each year into DC’s own “Capital of Christmas.” This year marks the sixth annual Christmas on the Potomac, which runs November 15th, 2013 – January 5th, 2014. And guess what? 1 Beltway Bargain Mom reader will get to win a free family 4-pack of tickets to experience ICE, so keep reading!

This year’s theme for ICE! at the Gaylord National is: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Hand-carved, colorful ice displays will bring Clement Moore’s classic American holiday poem to life in an wintery wonderland. Favorite scenes from the classic tale include visions of Sugar Plums and Saint Nick with his eight reindeer. Plus this year there is a brand-new bonus scene depicting “Christmas in New York City.” Bringing the exciting hustle and bustle of the Big Apple at Christmastime, and featuring the tallest ice sculptures ever created in the history of ICE! Children and adults will enjoy the festive fun that you can experience at ICE!

My family and I have attended ICE! at the Gaylord National the past two years. I can tell you firsthand, it’s a lot of fun for the entire family. You’ll experience breath-taking, colorful ice sculptures, 20-foot-tall slides, sculptures of lovable characters and the chance to see the artistry and product of dozens of artists and ice sculptors from Harbin, China. The frozen “Ice” portion is carved out of 2 million pounds of ice, and the whole process takes about a month to transform the refrigerated (9 degrees) 15,000 square-foot tent right next to the Gaylord Hotel, into the ICE! extravaganza.

Picture of us from ICE! last year

Ways to save money on your ICE admission:

Use code SOCIALMOM13 to save $3 off tickets on select dates during non-peak times.

And now for the fun part! One lucky Beltway Bargain Mom reader will win a family 4-pack of tickets to enjoy free admission to ICE! during non-peak hours!

Giveaway Prize: 4 tickets for your family to attend ICE! at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, MD. Valid Mondays-Fridays only. Excludes: Saturdays, Sundays or other blackout dates set by the National Gaylord. This giveaway ends Nov. 22nd, 2013 11:59pm ET and you have up to 6 ways to enter. Just enter via the Rafflecopter form below:

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We spent a weekend at the Gaylord National. The hotel is lovely and very festive, but the Ice show is not worth the money. I’d been hearing about this for several years, and I knew that others said it was overpriced. But somehow I felt that we should do it, since we have a child and we were at the Gaylord. We didn’t get a coupon since it was last minute, but we did go late when there was no line. I saw the space that was dedicated to the line (had there been a crowd when we were there) and I think I would have killed myself if I’d waited in a line like that and then experienced the boring, freezing Ice “show.” Essentially, the tent is just a giant freezer with a bunch of ice sculptures of Shrek. It is pretty? Yes. But that’s about it. If you have a dedicated (perhaps rather odd) obsession with Shrek, you might love it. But I just kind of like Shrek okay, so I was like…oh…pretty sculptures of Shrek…wow…it’s cold. My kid was like…I’m freezing…despite the parkas they give you. Then there’s a room with a few ice slides with a long line. We only went down once because it was freezing and ice slides really aren’t that exciting when you go down them. They’re just like other slides that don’t cost 100 dollars–but icy. Then a few more rooms…and admittedly cool ice dragon…and you’re done. They bump you out into guess? A space for more shopping! Maybe with a good discount this would be worth it…maybe. But we did it. Never doing it again. I’d save your money and go to the Peeps store instead.Rosalind Macdonald recently posted..No last blog posts to return.

I would love to take my daughter! She will be turning 5 and having her first figure skating show in the same week. It would be an encouraging birthday and congrats treat!! She would be able to bring two of her friends as a birthday party outing! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the chance!

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